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1889 Common Sense in the Household, a Manual of Practical Housewifery
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Description
Rebound
A brilliant guide to housekeeping in America, being a comprehensive manual of practical housewifery.
This cookbook and domestic guide was an immense success, selling over one million copies over several editions.
By Marion Harland, the pen-name of Mary Virginia Terhune, a prolific American author who published both fiction and non-fiction.
Eight leaves of blank lined pages are bound to the rear for notes.
Four pages of adverts to the rear.
Bookplate of Martin & Pamela Finch to the recto of the front endpaper. The Finch couple founded Matthew Finch Design Consultants Limited, a graphics group which specialised in in design for print and publishing. They opened an antiquarian bookshop, Wadard Books, in 2001.
Condition
Rebound in a cloth binding, with renewed endpapers. Externally, smart. Light bumping to the extremities. Bookplate to the recto of the front endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are age-toned and clean, with a few scattered spots and handling marks.
Near Fine
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